The Tiananmen demonstrations had nothing whatever to do with democracy and everything to do with cancelled college scholarships, out of control inflation, foreign students having sex with Chinese girls and rampant corruption led by Deng Xiaoping's thuggish family.
The kids had front page support from The Peoples Daily every day for six weeks and went home safely at the end.
It was the biggest media event of the decade and every foreign newspaper, radio and TV station on earth had reporters on the ground, day and night, and not one reported seeing violence in the square. Because there was one.
There was a riot in Chang’An Road in which thugs murdered a dozen unarmed cops and soldiers.
The leader of that riot, student Vice-President Wang Yam, was subsequently exfiltrated through Hong Kong and given British citizenship.
In 2006, for the first time in modern British history Wang was tried in camera and found guilty of bludgeoning an elderly man to death in order to rob him.
The Crown Prosecutor banned all media coverage and even speculation about the case but MI6, Britain’s intelligence agency, later admitted he was their agent.
The Tiananmen demonstrations had nothing whatever to do with democracy and everything to do with cancelled college scholarships, out of control inflation, foreign students having sex with Chinese girls and rampant corruption led by Deng Xiaoping's thuggish family.
The kids had front page support from The Peoples Daily every day for six weeks and went home safely at the end.
It was the biggest media event of the decade and every foreign newspaper, radio and TV station on earth had reporters on the ground, day and night, and not one reported seeing violence in the square. Because there was one.
There was a riot in Chang’An Road in which thugs murdered a dozen unarmed cops and soldiers.
The leader of that riot, student Vice-President Wang Yam, was subsequently exfiltrated through Hong Kong and given British citizenship.
In 2006, for the first time in modern British history Wang was tried in camera and found guilty of bludgeoning an elderly man to death in order to rob him.
The Crown Prosecutor banned all media coverage and even speculation about the case but MI6, Britain’s intelligence agency, later admitted he was their agent.
And that's the real story of Tiananmen.